An eclipse attack is a network-level attack on a blockchain, where an attacker essentially takes control of the peer-to-peer network, obscuring a node’s view of the blockchain.

In a new paper titled “Low-Resource Eclipse Attacks on Ethereum’s Peer-to-Peer Network,” Sharon Goldberg, an associate professor at Boston University; Ethan Heilman, a Ph.D. candidate at Boston University; and Yuval Marcus, a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, describe a way to carry out an eclipse attack on the Ethereum network.

(The researchers disclosed their attacks to Ethereum on January 9, 2018, and Ethereum developers have already issued a patch — Geth v1.8.1 — to fix the network.) Read more...

It is fitting that a casino with a name like bitcoincasino.us would accept Bitcoin Cash as a form of deposit. The casino has long been an advocate for allowing deposits of Bitcoin onto the platform. Now, it is taking the extra step and allowing for the cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin Cash to go along as well.

Bitcoin Cash broke away from Bitcoin itself and has become its own thing. However, a lot of merchants and others have been slow to adopt it or accept it as a form of payment. They are simply behind the times when it comes to cryptocurrencies. They are not paying nearly enough attention to the way that the world is moving. It is a common issue for a lot of people. Read more...

Brief:

The worldwide market for ether today is $ 2,081,390,000 USD. OKEx has over sixteen percent. Ethereum is down -3.50% in 24 hours, up 2.60% on the week and down -29.36% on the month on a last price of $ 861.82. The Ethereum marketcap is $ 84,365,810,012 with a circulating supply of 97,892,611 $ ETH. $ ETH/USDT is trading between a 24hr high of $ 894.00 and a 24hr low of $ 860.20 on a 24hr OKEx volume of $ 166,352,000. This trading volume is light to moderate. The weekly price trend is mixed.

The Ethereum community, key developers and researchers and others have always recognized scalability as perhaps the single most important key technical challenge that needs to be solved in order for blockchain applications to reach mass adoption. Blockchain scalability is difficult primarily because a typical blockchain design requires every node in the network to process every transaction, which limits the transaction processing capacity of the entire system to the capacity of a single node. Read more...

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Thursday, Feb 15, 2018 – With an undeniable eye for expansion, BitStarz Casino is showing that it’s a true trailblazer, as it now accepts both Ethereum (ETH) and Dogecoin (DOGE) for deposits and wagers. Raising the bar for altcoin acceptance and payment options, BitStarz has become one the world’s first online casinos to offer support for both of these high profile cryptocurrencies.Read more...

As the cryptocurrency market experiences growing pains, cybercriminals continue to dupe inexperienced investors. A recent example is a phishing scam targeting the Bee Token ICO, resulting in a lot of stolen Ethereum.

Phishing for Honey

Over $ 1 million worth of Ethereum tokens has been stolen by cybercriminals posing as Bee Token, a cryptocurrency startup with hopes of revolutionizing the home sharing industry by way of the blockchain.

The race for supremacy in crypto land changes daily and it is hard to keep up with the high paced markets. Bitcoin is still king as most altcoins can only be traded with it, but the top four below it are duking it out for second, third, and fourth place by market capacity.

With three out of the top four exchanges closing their doors to new registrations a couple of days ago it has been a little trickier to measure market sentiment. Transactions were also suspended temporarily at some of them including the world’s busiest exchange, Binance, which put the brakes on Ethereum transactions for a while. Read more...